The Border Safety Power intercepted a fifth Pakistani drone within the final 4 days. (Representational)
Jalandhar:
The Border Safety Power intercepted a fifth Pakistani drone within the final 4 days that intruded into India from alongside the Worldwide Border in Punjab to drop a medication consignment, officers mentioned on Monday.
The newest drone was “downed” within the Amritsar sector. The Border Safety Power (BSF) has recovered the massive black-coloured drone with a payload of suspected narcotics hooked up beneath it, they mentioned.
The amount and high quality of the consignment is being ascertained, the officers added.
That is the fifth reported interception of a “rogue” unmanned aerial car alongside the Punjab border since Could 19.
A couple of extra cases of troops selecting up the buzzing sound of a drone have been reported over the past 4 days however nothing extra may very well be established, the officers mentioned.
The BSF troops shot down two drones and intercepted a 3rd alongside the entrance on Friday (Could 19). A BSF spokesperson had mentioned the third drone fell into Pakistani territory and couldn’t be recovered.
A drone that “violated Indian airspace on Saturday evening (Could 20) was intercepted by firing within the jurisdiction of the Amritsar sector” and the drive recovered 3.3 kilogrammes of suspected narcotics that was slung below it.
Punjab shares an over 500-kilometre-long entrance with Pakistan that’s guarded by the BSF and drones and unmanned aerial automobiles retreating from that nation into India with medicine and arms and ammunition payloads have change into a matter of concern for safety businesses over the past three-four years.
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